...modern theatre ? — the time required by the fable elapses for the most part between the acts — and time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious...imagination — a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours — the unities of time and place are not essential to a just drama, and tho' they...

...duration is the same. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions ; and why muy not the second imitation represent an action that...leaving the stage empty only at the end of an act, many oftlie English have follosved a different practice. In Shukspeare particularly, every successive scene...

...after the first; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene I Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we •• L-:|\ contract the time of real actions, and therefore...

...it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene. Time is, of 200 THE DRAMAS OF SIIAKSFEARE. all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly...

...with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene. Time is, of 260 THE DRAMAS OF SHAKSPEARE. all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly...

...after the first ; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene 7 n passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of :eal actions, and therefore willingly...

...after the first; if it be so connected wilh it, that nothing but lime can be supposed to intervene Ч e, and Measure still for Measure. Then, Angelo, thy...manifested : Which though thou wouldst deny, denies passage of hours, lu contemplation we easily contract the lime of real actions, and therefore willingly...

...we know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the YOL. I. 4 time of real actions, and therefore...

...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of boars. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly...

...we know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus is before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation, we easily contract the time of real actions, and, therefore, willingly...